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Gotta love Proton for this yearly benefit! (lemmy.world)
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[-] Willie@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

Nah, that's just toxic corporate stuff.

It's the same thing a lot of companies' subscriptions do where they give you something extra over time so that they can take it away if you ever decide to try testing out another service. Normally it is something small though, like something decorative or just something saying that you've been a member for a long time, so at least they're giving you something useful for them to take away later, or maybe that makes it worse, I dunno~

[-] degen@midwest.social 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's like post-marketing. You're already a user/customer, but companies still want to put psychological hooks in you.

Kind of reminds me of steam's insane discounts or epic giving away games. That's more geared toward bringing people in, maybe.

I'd like to believe some instances of this sort of thing can be out of genuine appreciation for supporters, but I might just be naive... It is straight out of the abuser's handbook.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

If they were they would give back the extra space once a user resub

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is this a permanent 50?

Edit: nevermind. Apparently, I can't read.

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

It's an annual streak bonus

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 13 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of when Gmail launched and people were excited that they had 10gb of storage for emails... 😅

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IIRC it the storage space expanding and we could even see that in real-time, that was amazing back then

[-] mac@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Weird I've only gotten 10gb per year for the last like 2-3 years

granted, as a business acct Holder I think they just gave me 500gb extra a month or so back

[-] Vendul@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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